Commercial, production quality versions of the core components and add-on
components of Oracle GlassFish Server

contrib.glassfish.sun.com

pkg.sun.com/glassfish/v3/contrib/

Additional add-on components that are contributed by Oracle partners

contrib.glassfish.org

pkg.glassfish.org/v3/contrib/

Additional add-on components that are contributed by the GlassFish community

dev.glassfish.sun.com

pkg.sun.com/glassfish/v3/dev/

Developmental, beta, and prerelease versions of the components in the pkg.sun.com/glassfish/v3/release/ repository

For Oracle GlassFish Server installations,
the release.glassfish.sun.com publisher is designated as
the preferred publisher. To ensure that installations
contain only commercial, production quality version of components by default,
the preferred publisher is treated specially by the tools for updating GlassFish Server software:

If an add-on component is available from the preferred publisher and
from other publishers, the Update Tool GUI and the pkg CLI
list and install the component from the preferred publisher.

After a component has been installed from the preferred publisher, the
Update Tool, Software Update, and desktop notifier GUIs search for updates
to that component only from the preferred publisher.

If you have support for Oracle GlassFish Server, you can acquire an
SSL certificate and key to change the preferred publisher's repository URL
from pkg.sun.com/glassfish/v3/release/ to pkg.sun.com/glassfish/v3/support/. This repository provides more frequent commercial, production
quality updates. For more information, see the pkg.sun.com Certificate Generator.